Hendricks - Spirit-Centered Relationships: Experiencing Greater Love and Harmony Through the Power of Presencing

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005930625

ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-0887-4
ISBN 10: 1-4019-0887-X

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We dedicate this book to Elsie and
Imogen, in gratitude for the love they
give us and the wonder they radiate.

SPIRIT-CENTERED RELATIONSHIPS:
A NEW PATH TO INTIMACY AND
FULL CREATIVE EXPRESSION

W hat is a spirit-centered relationship, and how can you bring more genuine love into your life?

To answer these questions, tune in to yourself to find out if this is what your heart desires in a close relationship:

1. You feel connected to your own spiritual essenceyour true selfin all the ups and downs of daily living.

2. You and your partner feel connected on the spiritual level, both in times of stress as well as in times of joy and abundance.

3. You grow creatively as independent individuals at the same time that you grow closer together in intimacy.

4. You feel an abundant flow of creative energy because you dont squander it on conflicts that are never resolved.

5. You and your beloved learn to love so generously and wisely that your relationship becomes a sacred treasure to you and an inspiration to others.

If this is the kind of relationship your heart desires, then we believe that youll find this book liberating, practical, and soul-satisfying.

We set out to create a spirit-centered relationship for ourselves more than 25 years ago. By using the practices we share with you in this book, we transformed our own relationship from struggle and disappointment to a steady source of inspiration and delight. It took years of conscious attention to create the comfortable flow of love and harmony we now celebrate, but the learning and joy we experienced made the journey exhilarating every step of the way.

We believe that the magic is in the tools and your willingness to use them; to that end, we created the relationship of our dreams out of tiny moments of conscious choice. When we got stuckand it happened hundreds of times in our early yearswe simply went back to the practices we share with you in this book. And they worked, every single time, to shift us out of our old programming into a new flow of love and harmony.

It was the power of Presencing that made our transformation possible, and since then the passionate purpose of our lives has been to help as many people as we can enjoy that remarkable power in their own relationships.

What Is Presencing?

If you look in a dictionary, you probably wont find the verb To Presence or the noun Presencing. We coined these terms many years ago because we couldnt find any other words that described exactly what we meant. To us, Presencing is the act of resting your attention on something real that youre experiencing right now. As our skill in Presencing grew, we felt a greater connection with the natural spiritual essence of ourselves and each other. In other words, where Presencing goes, spirit flows and relationship grows.